Surveys, 4th Division & Anor v. Hamit Matusin & Ors [1994] 3 CLJ In that case, Peh Swee Chin SCJ, delivering the judgment of the Supreme Court said, at p. 572: As was stated by the Federal Court in Ang Koon Kau & Anor v. Lau Piang Ngong [1985] CLJ Rep 24; [1985] 1 CLJ 31; [1984] 2 CLJ Rep 137; [1984] 2 MLJ 277, FC at page 278: Evidence given at the trial can therefore in appropriate circumstances overcome defects in the pleadings where the net result of such evidence is to prevent the other side from being taken by surprise. There is however, at least one important exception to such curing of defect of pleading by evidence departing from such pleading without objection then and there to such evidence. The exception is when such evidence represents a radical departure from the pleading, and is not just a variation, modification or development of what has been alleged in the pleading in question, please see Waghorn v. George Wimpey & Co. Ltd, [1969] 1 WLR 1764, which gave rise to the proposition, which was approved by Ang Koon Kau & Anor v. Lau Piang Ngong, supra, and John Stein & Co. Ltd v.